Hi Folks, I'm not sure this is the right place to report this and apologize in advance if factory is the wrong venue. I needed to purchase a new laptop for myself (not for work) last week and decided to get a fairly nice and current one. Settled on a Samsung 15-inch Series 9 NP900X4C-A01US. The important bits are its Intel HD Graphics 4000 system and an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 for wifi and Bluetooth 4.0. It also has a 128-GB mSATA SSD and 8-GB of ram. It also came with Windows 7 Home 64, which I immediately blew away, of course. I had a bit of time and thought I'd try 12.2 beta (openSUSE-DVD-Build0452-x86_64.iso) on a lark. I figured that 12.2 would have a better chance of driving the 6235 wifi system. Alas, I couldn't get it installed. I tried two times, the first with a custom install using a 100-mb ext-2 boot partition, an 8-GB swap, a 24-GB root partition using Reiser with the free-hog for /export/home also with Reiser. The install proceeded to the first boot when it issued a warning that grub2 couldn't install on an unmountable partition. The screen gave me the option of changing things around and I then selected grub1. Grub seemed to work okay and a green screen with the Gecko and fuzzy white blobs floating around appeared. A white progress bar also appeared. I let it go for a bit but the only things that happened was the fuzzy blobs stopped moving around as much, but the progress bar continued to move right at a very slow pace. I hit escape at a point a couple of minutes into this and saw what appeared to be the kernel log spewing out boot information, but it seemed like it was in a loop. It was moving too fast for me to draw a bead on what it was saying. After what appeared to be a half-dozen loops the green Gecko screen reappeared and froze. Bummer. So I tried another install, this time going completely with the defaults. I didn't customize a thing. This time grub2 didn't complain and showed the new grub2 selection screen. I hit the default selection and it proceed to boot to the same green Gecko screen and froze. ESC did nothing. CTL/ALT/DEL didn't work, a hard power cycle was the only way to break the cycle. Bummer. Apparently grub2 doesn't grok Reiserfs, even with an ext-2 /boot. So I tried a new install with 12.1 and things went well enough. Bluetooth worked (mouse), sound worked, and the function key volume controls work. Initially the screen brightness buttons worked, but after a zypper dup they failed. More importantly, wifi doesn't work. The kernel sees the chipset and tries to bring it up, but fails. The latest Knoppix also fails wifi. Graphics work well enough, but glxgears shows a frame rate of about 58 frames per second. The screen seems okay, however. I'd be happy to file a bug report, but there's not enough for me to hang a bug on, that I can see. Just "install fails, green Gecko gets in way of seeing action". I hate to admit this, but my 8-year old grand daughter was clamoring to use the new laptop, so I tried Ubuntu. It installed easily and everything works as intended. Even the web cam. (didn't try the mic) I've been using SuSE since 5.2 and have made hundreds of installs. I don't intended to change, but that Ubuntu install sure was slick... My grand daughter has been using openSuSE since she was 4-years old, but I'd rather she use Ubuntu than Windows. I've got a desktop at work that needs an install, I'll try 12.2 again and see what happens. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org